Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Is astrology a pseudo science

Dear All

Taking an inspiration from my friend I have decided to writed an article on the subject mentioned in the title "Is Astrology a Pseudo Science". and for this i am not going to defend the subject at this stage rather i am going to put forward some questions to the rationalists and would be happy if they could answer those questions..

1) Why should the climatic patterns repeat time and again?
2) Why should the human body react adversely to certain type of foods and why not the same reaction be there on each and every individual
3) Whats the reason for the human moods to change with changes in climatic conditions
These are all some questions that comes to my mind immediately and would be happy if people post comments opinions on the subject. Critics are most welcome

1 comment:

Sriram said...

RamGans.. here are some of the answers from my side
- Climatic patterns like monsoons repeat time and again due to a complex atmospheric and ocean current pattern, which has evolved over a period of time. Ocean currents are in turn governed by the earth's internal core temperature and the North and South Pole temperatures
- To most extent, lactoseintolerant people are always intolerant to lactose all the time.. so I dont know why you have put that question. Most of the reactions are due to gene deficiency in human body. For example, we need to have a particular gene in our body to break the complex protein "lactose". We, as humans have evolved to have that. Just came an article in BBC health that states that we did not have lactose breaking gene like 15000 years back..
3) The reasons why human moods changes to climatic conditions is because of the cues our sensory receptors in nose, toungue, feet, fingers, genitals and nipples pick up and send it to the brain, which inturn controls the secretion of mood managing chemicals like endomorphin and serotonin..as the sensory receptors differ in their signals, the brain receives those changes and instructs the body to react to those cues..

Keep it coming man.. :)